MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           2929

are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission
11.

It is unlawful far an owner or operator of a place
of public accommodation or an agent or employee of [said]
THE owner or operator, because of the race, creed, color,
[or] national origin, MARITAL STATUS, OR PHYSICAL OR
MENTAL HANDICAP, of any person, to refuse, withhold from,
or deny to such person any of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges of such place of
public accommodation. Nothing in this; section shall be
construed or interpreted to prohibit the proprietor of
any establishment, or the employees thereof, from the
right to deny service to any person for failure to
conform to the usual and regular requirements, standards
and regulations for the establishment so long as the
denial is not based upon discrimination on the grounds of
race, color, creed, [or] national origin, MARITAL STATUS,
OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HANDICAP. For the purpose of this
subtitle, a place of public accommodation means: (1) any
inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides
lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment
located within a building which contains; not more than
five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually
occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his
residence; (2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom,
lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility
principally engaged in selling food or alcoholic
beverages for consumption on the premises, including, but
not limited to, any such facility located on the premises
of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station; (3)
any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports
arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or
entertainment; and (4) any establishment (A) (i) which is
physically located within the premises of any
establishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or
(ii) within the premises of which is physically located
any such covered establishment, and (B) which holds
itself out as serving patrons of such covered
establishment. The provisions of this section shall not
apply to a private club or other establishment not in
fact open to the public, except to the extent that the
facilities of such establishments are made available to
the customers or patrons of an establishment within the
scope of this section.

11B.

No officer or employee of a State agency, department
or board shall discriminate in the hiring, firing or